AP literature and composition terms Flashcards

3285031850	allegory	a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning	0
3285034140	alliteration	the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words	1
3285047463	allusion	a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art	2
3285056739	ambiguity	a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning	3
3285061272	analogy	the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship	4
3285065747	anaphora	the deliberate repetition of a word or phase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs	5
3285076943	antagonist	a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character	6
3285081047	anthropomorphism	the act of attributing human forms or qualities to an entities which are not human	7
3285090696	aphorism	expresses a truth in a memorable way	8
3285096695	apostrophe	when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed	9
3285102998	archetype	a generic, idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, or patterned, or emulated	10
3285112695	assonance	the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds	11
3285116169	ballad meter	four-lined stanzas usually rhyming abcb with the first and third lines carrying out four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three	12
3285130661	blank verse	a literary device defined as unrhyming verse written in iambic pentameter	13
3285136724	bildungsroman	a story in which the protagonist undergoes growth throughout the entire narrative	14
3285143824	catastrophe	the "turning downward" of a plot in a classical tragedy	15
3285155246	character	any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work	16
3285159081	characterization	the method used by a writer to develop a character	17
3285165993	chiasm	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	18
3285172416	action	everything that happens in a story	19